Lovells' works on some of the largest and most complex equity capital markets transactions. Recent highlights include:
- Merrill Lynch/JPMorgan Cazenove - acting for the banks as advisers and sponsors of Kazakhmys plc's £1.4bn acquisition of a stake in Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation plc from the Government of Kazakhstan, in return for an issue of shares to the government
- Cookson Group - acting for Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Cazenove on a £153m accelerated bookbuilt cashbox placing by Cookson Group to part finance its acquisition of Foseco plc
- AMG Advanced Metallurgical Group NV - acting for AMG on the €643m IPO on Euronext Amsterdam
- Chagala Group Limited - acting for Chagala on its US$120m IPO on the London Stock Exchange of global depositary receipts
- Cineworld - acting for JPMorgan Cazenove and Lehman Brothers on the £240m IPO of Cineworld
- Smurfit Kappa - acting for Smurfit Kappa on the €3.4bn IPO on the Irish Stock Exchange and the main market of the London Stock Exchange
- Country Garden Holdings - acting for Morgan Stanley and UBS as joint sponsors of the largest ever IPO by a Chinese real estate developer raising US$1.9bn
- China Molybdenum - acting for Morgan Stanley and UBS on the US$1.05bn IPO
- easyJet - acting for FL Group on the sale (International placement) of a 16.9% stake in easyJet shares
- Hunan Nonferrous Metals Corporation - acting for Morgan Stanley and BOCI Asia Ltd – on the HK$2.04 billion (US$257.9m) IPO of H shares and listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange of Hunan Nonferrous Metals Corporation Limited
- Espirito Santo Financial Group - acting for Lehman Brothers as nominated adviser and broker to Espirito Santo Financial Group on its €150m secondary offering
- KPN - acting for Lehman Brothers on a block trade of US$1.3bn worth of shares in KPN
- Umbro - acting for Umbro on the £144.5m listing on the London Stock Exchange
- AMP - acting for AMP on its £4.9bn demerger and London listing of its Northern hemisphere operations, HHG plc ITV - acting for ITV plc on its introduction to the LSE following the merger of Granada and Carlton
- Citigroup Global Markets (Asia) Limited - acting for Citigroup Global Markets on the listing of CSMC Technologies Corporation on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
- JPMorgan Cazenove - £90m placing by Babcock International for purchase of Devonport Management
- Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited - acting for Temasek Holdings on the acquisition of a stake in Barclays of up to £2.5bn
- JP Morgan Cazenove - acting for JP Morgan Cazenove on a £40m placing and open offer for Acambis
- Babcock & Brown Public Partnerships Limited (BBPP) - on a successful issue of C Shares in BBPP by way of an offer for subscription and placing